Kirstjen Nielsen

Kirstjen Nielsen (14 May 1972-) was the US Secretary of Homeland Security from 6 December 2017, succeeding John F. Kelly.

Biography
Kirstjen Nielsen was born in Colorado Springs, Colorado in 1972, and the family relocated to Clearwater, Florida following her birth. She served under President George W. Bush as Special Assistant to the President, and she left the Bush administration in 2008. She then founded Sunesis Consulting, but she returned to politics as Secretary of Homeland Security John F. Kelly's chief of staff. In 2017, she was appointed to succeed Kelly as Secretary of Homeland Security following his promotion to White House Chief of Staff, and she was responsible for the separation of illegal immigrant children from their parents at the border, and for detaining the children in cages. On 13 November 2018, multiple cabinet officials speculated that Nielsen would be next in a long list of administration members to be fired by Donald Trump, as he was frustrated at her handling of immigration and border security issues.